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  • Yeti self-driving snow plow

    Self-driving-car technology won't stop at everyday transportation. The systems that will likely make their way to ride-sharing services first have the potential to aid numerous industries, and Yeti Snow Technology announced on Monday that it's working to bring automated snowplows to market. Yeti, a Norwegian company owned jointly by a company called Semcon and another called Øveraasen, tested its snowplows for the first time this month at an airport north of Oslo, Norway. It's a great location since, well, it snows a lot there. The self-driving snowplows cleared the airport's runway of...

  • 2018 Subaru Winter Sporting event
    Subaru's created the Goldilocks of winter driving schools

    There’s no shortage of winter driving schools hosted by automakers these days. Each of these schools is the same basic concept with various twists on the details. Subaru, the brand known for all-weather capability, now offers its own. With Flatout Sweden and DirtFish Rally school...

  • Porsche GT2 RS performs an ice ballet on the snow at St. Moritz
    Watch Porsche perform an ice ballet with a 911 GT2 RS and a vintage 911 rally car at St. Moritz

    With the right set of tires, nearly any vehicle is prepared for winter driving. A perfect example of this is the 700-horsepower Porsche 911 GT2 RS. When wearing winter tires, the car is capable of finding traction where you'd expect none to exist. Porsche highlights this fact by placing a GT2 RS in...

  • 2018 Mercedes-AMG Winter Sporting event
    Mercedes-AMG's Winter Driving Academy highlights differences in brand's performance drivetrains

    Mercedes-AMGs are known for big, brutish power that loves to go sideways. But what’s power without control? To highlight the difference in how various AMG powertrains maintain—or lose—control, Mercedes-AMG offers a winter driving academy dubbed the AMG Winter Sporting event. Chief...

  • Porsche Camp4 2018
    Learning the unnatural at Porsche's Camp4 winter driving school

    Pierre Des Marais’ voice cracked over the radio as he screamed, “Yo-el! Why do I hear throttle and see brake lights multiple times?” “Turn. Brake. Accelerate,” he said loudly into the radio. In most track situations you are told to brake hard, turn, then accelerate out...

  • Ken Block drives the Ford F-150 Raptor in the snow
    Ken Block plays in the snow in a Ford F-150 Raptor

    Ford Performance and Ken Block have a symbiotic relationship. Ford provides him with race cars and the occasional other Ford product. Block drives the living daylights out of them, has his team create cool videos, and the two parties use said videos for awesome marketing campaigns. Ford gets views...

  • Reiter Lamborghini Gallardo on a ski slope.

    Apparently, a modified Lamborghini Gallardo is just as good on snow as it is on pavement.

  • Mercedes-Benz wind tunnel climate testing
    Mercedes-Benz' Wind Tunnel Provides Weather On Demand

    One minute it's freezing cold, the next you're battling with a hurricane, and then finally the sun comes out for tropical temperatures. No, it's not some futuristic vision of a world in the grips of rapid climate change, it's actually the conditions available in the new wind tunnels used by...

  • Audi R8 in the snow
    Video: Audi R8 Braves Blizzard, Asks For Your Story

    Audi is looking to collect winter stories of its quattro all-wheel drive system in use, and let's face it: this winter probably provided ample opportunity with snow falling heavily from the North Pole clear into the Deep South. This video--which only briefly features the Audi R8, sadly--is a call...

  • Rahm Emanuel helps push a police vehicle out of the snow
    Rahm Emanuel Saves Chicago From Winter Storm, Knocks Katie Couric Down A Peg

    On Tuesday, Vanity Fair's Juli Weiner published an article entitled, "Rahm Emanuel Should Be Personally Rescuing People During the Chicago Blizzard". (You have to hand it to VF: they know how to put the "b" in "subtle".) Weiner's argument was basically that the mayoral candidate needed to get out...

  • BMW 1-Series with snow chains on front wheels, Staffordshire, England, Dec 2010, photo by Andy Smith
    BMW Stuck In The Snow? Guess Which End Your Chains Go On...

    Back in the day, buying a BMW was something only true sports sedan fanatics understood. But the legendary 2002 is long gone--35 years now--and all sorts of new folks are buying Bimmers. Including those, apparently, who think their BMW 1-Series has front-wheel drive. Earlier this year, CEO Norbert...

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